Summertime Cottage Cheese Salad

Fresh cottage cheese salad. Utilize the veggies from your garden. I'm not sure when I started making this salad. My grandma came up with it years ago, and I've made some simple changes to make it my own. **I've never had this salad on a bun, but my fellow Zaarites have taken gorgeous pictures in that form. I think I'll try it on a toasted onion bagel!

• Ready In: 1 hr 10 mins
• Serves: 6
• Yields: 1 quart

Ingredients

• 1 (24 ounce) container cottage cheese
• 1  medium carrot, peeled and shredded
• 1⁄2 green pepper, chopped (more or less depending on your taste)
• 2  green onions, chopped fine (use tops)
• 2  medium fresh tomatoes, de-seed for less juice and chopped
•  salt and pepper

Directions

1. Drain excess fluid from cottage cheese. (If you decide to put in on bread, you may want to drain in a strainer.).
2. Gently fold together shredded carrot, green pepper, onions, tomato and cottage cheese.
3. Place in serving dish, and refrigerate until ready to serve.